This racist billboard from a Tennessee congressional candidate is outraging Polk County residents and other half-decent folk. (Facebook)

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A Polk County, Tenn., restaurant owner running for a congressional seat is outraging neighbors and the internet with an exceptionally racist campaign billboard, WTVC reports. “I am so enraged I can barely express myself without copious amounts of profanity," Amy Hines Woody captioned her photo of the billboard on Facebook in a post that has apparently since been taken down. The billboard, which reads "Make America White Again," was erected near her home by Rick Tyler. Tyler, who says he's inspired by Donald Trump, is running a “campaign of explicit white nationalism," according to Gawker. On his campaign website (which is also down; cached version here), Tyler says Trump has “loosened up the overall spectrum of political discourse.” He goes on to claim the “white American super majority," needed to fight tyranny, is being destroyed.

While the "Make America White Again" billboard was removed Tuesday, Tyler is asking for donations to fund his other billboard ideas, including ones that read "Stop the Muslim invasion" and “Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be miscegenators.” Tyler, who is running as an Independent and got a whopping 0.4% of the vote when he previously ran in 2014, has no realistic shot at winning. Therefore, Gawker states that “his candidacy is probably best read as an example of that which Donald Trump hath wrought.” Meanwhile, calls for a boycott of Tyler's business, the Whitewater Grille, are coming from former customers and the Kiwanis of Ocoee, which calls his billboard "repugnant."

Trump has actually employed more Latinos and minorities than Hlyliar and Jeffy have in their 3.5 billion dollar political empire over 41 years (https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/clinton-money/). Trump has provided a paycheck to tens of thousands of Latinos to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. Most recently look at the Trump Tower in Las Vegas. My cousin was an A/V integrator of that project. He was there everyday for 2 years to put in the entire A/V package as they constructed it. He noticed that only one of every 10 workers were NOT Latino. I'm talking steel workers, cement, rock, tile, electrical, HVAC, they were all mostly Latino. Jeffy and Hlyliar cannot anywhere NEAR claim they have been responsible for the lucrative employment of so many workers, many union members. http://www.destination360.com/north-america/us/nevada/las-vegas/images/s/trump-las-vegas.jpg Clintons ,while having raised more than 3.5 billion dollars have not spent that on minorities like Trump has in all of his construction projects.

George Black

Jun 23, 2016 8:46 AM CDT

"...Gawker states that “his candidacy is probably best read as an example of that which Donald Trump hath wrought." Obviously Gawker and Harthorne are unhindered by facts or logic. I'd say the guy is pi$$ed but has probably been so for much longer than Trump has been running. After all the miscreant Obama has been insulting middle America for 7+ years. Newser seems to have a number of Salon rejects posting all day everyday I guess it's not a big leap for them and their "reporting staff" to try to emulate that rag too. It would be nice if reporters would simply report and lose their opinions. But since so many are rabid, ridiculously biased leftists that is a dream.

tpvero

Jun 23, 2016 1:21 AM CDT

Certainly that loser Trump influenced this other candidate with dementia. They have no real political ideas and if they had they couldn't articulate them, so the fall back on racist slogans and catch phrases that mean nothing. He is just another ugly white guy, with no game.